Monday, January 5, 2009

It's Official: We're moving to Qt4!

SAYA-VE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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We're disposing wxWidgets in favor of Qt4.

(End of announcement)

Unofficial comment by Rick.
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I finally made up my mind. After an e-mail conversation with one of the VLC developers, I was told that they submitted quite a few bug reports to wxWidgets, and they were all dismissed. I was also told that wxWidgets was very difficult to work with, and recommended to work with GTK, QT, or anything _else_ (wow, is wxWidgets that bad?).

And my experience confirms it.

Now, I tried the QT4 dialog designer, and once you get the hang of it (you need to use a right-click menu to put all the controls in a layout, there's no standard button for that), it's a bliss. But is it compatible with GPLv3? Version 4.3.4 and up are. Hurray! :)

Sigh, so here goes YET ANOTHER month of changing existing code for arbitrary reasons. I'm lucky I had already adapted a lot of code from wxWidgets ;-).

I'll close this announcement with a famous quote:

"Chance favors the prepared mind".
Louis Pasteur

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